TY - JOUR
T1 - Measuring the contributions of Chinese scholars to the research field of systems biology from 2005 to 2013
AU - Zou, Yawen
AU - Laubichler, Manfred
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank many people who have contributed to this project, including Jane Maienschein, Erick Peirson, Julia Damerow, Kenneth D. Aiello, and Deryc Painter, and anonymous reviewers for their suggestions. The authors also would like to acknowledge financial support from National Science Foundation (SES 1243575), China Scholarship Council (2011635028), and the ASU-SFI Center for Biosocial Complex Systems.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016, Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, Hungary.
PY - 2017/3/1
Y1 - 2017/3/1
N2 - Systems biology is a new field of biology that has great implications for agriculture, medicine, and sustainability. In this article we explore the contributions of Chinese authors to systems biology through analysis of the metadata of more than 9000 articles on systems biology. Our big-data approach includes scientometric analysis, GIS analysis, co-word network analysis, and comparative analysis. By 2013 China has become second in the number of publications on systems biology. Similar to previous studies on Chinese science, we find an unequal distribution of research power in China, favoring big cities and coastal cities. Overall, 75% of the articles in systems biology were published by scholars from universities, 15% by scholars from the Chinese of Academy of Sciences institutions, and 9% from other institutions. Many Chinese scholars’ research topics are similar to those in the US, Japan, and Germany, but one salient difference is that traditional Chinese medicine is an important topic among Chinese systems biologists. 25% of Chinese systems biologists cooperate with scientists abroad, suggesting that they take advantage of the opening-up policy. From the year 2011–2013, the average impact factor of the journals that Chinese scholars publish in is generally lower than that of their counterparts in the US, but the trend points to a gradual increase in impact.
AB - Systems biology is a new field of biology that has great implications for agriculture, medicine, and sustainability. In this article we explore the contributions of Chinese authors to systems biology through analysis of the metadata of more than 9000 articles on systems biology. Our big-data approach includes scientometric analysis, GIS analysis, co-word network analysis, and comparative analysis. By 2013 China has become second in the number of publications on systems biology. Similar to previous studies on Chinese science, we find an unequal distribution of research power in China, favoring big cities and coastal cities. Overall, 75% of the articles in systems biology were published by scholars from universities, 15% by scholars from the Chinese of Academy of Sciences institutions, and 9% from other institutions. Many Chinese scholars’ research topics are similar to those in the US, Japan, and Germany, but one salient difference is that traditional Chinese medicine is an important topic among Chinese systems biologists. 25% of Chinese systems biologists cooperate with scientists abroad, suggesting that they take advantage of the opening-up policy. From the year 2011–2013, the average impact factor of the journals that Chinese scholars publish in is generally lower than that of their counterparts in the US, but the trend points to a gradual increase in impact.
KW - Chinese scholars
KW - Comparative analysis
KW - GIS analysis
KW - Network analysis
KW - Scientometrics
KW - Systems biology
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U2 - 10.1007/s11192-016-2213-x
DO - 10.1007/s11192-016-2213-x
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85008219652
SN - 0138-9130
VL - 110
SP - 1615
EP - 1631
JO - Scientometrics
JF - Scientometrics
IS - 3
ER -